Morpheus And His Long, Black Coat

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Jude and Cardan

You guys remember, “I have seen the acorn before the oak”, right? When Madoc came to visit Eva in the prologue of The Cruel Prince?

Apparently one method of tricking a changeling child into revealing their identity is to pretend to cook a meal for many people in an eggshell. The changeling, upon seeing this, will, in astonishment, say

Acorn before oak I knew,

An egg before a hen,

But I never heard of an eggshell brew

A dinner for harvest men.

or something along those lines, thus implicating him.

This is from a Celtic fairytale titled Brewery of Eggshells and is from Thomas Crofton Croker’s first volume of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland which was published in 1825.

I think Holly Black might have seen this Facebook post because it has the EXACT same words in it and was posted in 2012. 6 years before the publication of The Cruel Prince.

Thoughts?

P.S. I don’t think anyone else has interpreted the quote in this way but @rhysiedarling has written a particularly interesting piece where she refers to it as an example of foreshadowing.

Ok, by wouldn't it be FUN if Liriope's husband suddenly came back and pulled "my wife's kid is technically MY kid" (aka Madoc with twins), and stole Oak to life of wilderness and being feral?

me: "im not that petty"

also me:

Me again 😁

How does aging in Fey Lands works?

Twins doesnt look kids amymore, similarly Vivi and Cardan. Does their look changes till some age and then stops? (I somehow imagined Madoc to look like middle age, but it could be just my not so focused reading.)

If I am correct, Jude and Taryn should live long if they are ij Fey Land?

Thanks 😊

hello again, nonnie!

the way i've always interpreted it is that any child raised in Faerie, no matter if they are human or fae, ages until "maturity", after which the aging process stops. for most humans, mental/physical maturity would peak at age 25. i'm not sure about those stats when it comes to the fae, but i assume it would be somewhere around there. the difference is, however, the fae don't have to be raised in Faerie to stop aging.

for a human who is brought to Faerie after they've already surpassed maturity, i assume they just stop aging at whatever age they are when they enter, and stay that age until they return to the mortal lands.

on twitter, Holly has confirmed that Jude and Taryn should indeed remain youthful for a very long time, so long as they remain in Elfhame. in the books, the same thing was mentioned, but with the added tidbit of "as soon as they step foot back in the mortal world, all the years will catch up to them immediately". this was all told according to conjecture, however.

and because there have not been many cases of humans remaining in Elfhame for extended periods of time before returning to the mortal world to compare, we shouldn't jump to believe the rumours floating around what we know to be a land full of prejudices against mortals.

as for Madoc, we don't really have a reference point for what a 2-decades-old red cap and a 2-centuries-old red cap look like side by side. so i'm not sure we'd be able to percieve how old Madoc looks based on our human beauty standards.

however, i've personally always thought of him as looking a little like Richard Coyle from The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (but with green skin, of course).

-Em 🖤🗡

Lady Gaga - Alice

My name isn't Alice

But I keep looking

I keep looking for the Wonderland

reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to

Omg, same!!! Somehow Emilia feels completely powerless in the beginning, and then instantly completely open to everything. Like if she just got Mary Sue'd, but for funny times

I'm around half way in Kingdom of the cursed and I just... nothing will beat the folk of the air series when it comes to lust and holding power against someone like Jude and Cardan. and I'm not sure if it has to do with the fact that they had a tit for tat that slowly escalated in to the "your gonna have to beg for it" energy because chapter 17 of the Kingdom of the cursed is kinda giving me the wrong vibes...

and when I paused the first thing that came to mind was if I read ch15 of TWK(I am fully aware of my obsession) without context will I have the same icky feeling? is it Emilia lacking power or her lack of participation in this game of provocation that I dislike

QoN, ch.25

Lady Asha and Lady Nore, introduced by Jude:

“I have heard that you wish for a new role in the Court,” I say to her. “I am thinking of making you an ambassador to the Court of Teeth, so it seemed useful for you to meet Lady Nore.”

There is absolutely no truth to what I’m saying. But I want Lady Asha to know that I have heard of her plotting and that if she crosses me, I am capable of sending her away from the comforts she prizes most.

...

Lady Asha looks as though what she’d really prefer is to stab me in the throat. I turn away from her and Lady Nore. “Enjoy your conversation.” Maybe they will. They both hate me. That gives them at least one thing in common.

What if Lady Asha is in cahoots with new Court of teeth? And I could definitely see her being leader of the "afraid Jude will kill Cardan" circle, as stated in spoilery chapter.

Map and poetry pages in Holly Black's Elfhame series The Folk of The Air ✨️

From The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing.

Love the edit. The most delicious part of the novel is quoted.

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